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Record Harvest

Score, age and save every deer to your registry.

1Buck profile

Scoring a buck with antlers. Logging a doe or a button buck? Pick it above: you'll skip the antler measurements.

Optional. Your call from body size and head shape if you're not aging the jaw. Aging the teeth is more precise and gives an age class like 2.5 or 4.5.

Who he is and where he came from. Only the hunt club and ZIP matter for your records — the rest is for you.

Deer grow and age differently from one region to the next. Nothing we publish or share identifies you, your property, or your deer.

Optional. The number your state gives you when you check your deer in. It's easy to lose, so keep it here.

Optional. Your best guess is fine. Over a few seasons, harvest times show when your deer are really moving.

Optional. Where was the stand or blind: near bedding cover, on a food source, or along a travel corridor between them?

Add up to 4 — him on the tailgate, a rack shot, whatever you want on the record.

2Weight

Optional. In pounds. Live weight is on the hoof, before field dressing. Field-dressed is guts out, with the head and hide still on. If you only have one, we'll estimate the other using the common rule that a field-dressed deer weighs about 78% of its live weight.

3Trail camera photos

Optional. Pictures of this same buck from before you took him. Useful for your own records year over year, and they stay on your device with everything else.

4Typical frame

Count the points on his typical frame, both sides together. A projection only counts as a point if it is at least 1" long and longer than it is wide at some spot 1" or more up from its base. Each main beam tip counts as a point, but it is not measured as one. This sets how many tine rows you fill in. Kickers, stickers and drop tines don't count here — they go in abnormal points below.

Where to measure spread
Front view of a whitetail rack showing the spread measurements

Measurement D — the widest distance between the inside of the main beams, taken at a right angle to the center line of the skull. That is the only spread that counts toward the score. Tap the chart to open it full size.

5Spread measurements

Measure everything with a ¼"-wide flexible steel tape to the nearest ⅛". Boone and Crockett record all three spreads. Only D enters the score — B and C describe the shape of the rack for the record.

Straight-line distance between the tips of the two main beams. Recorded, not scored.

The widest part of the rack, measured at a right angle to the center line of the skull, whether that falls across the main beams or across points. Recorded, not scored.

The widest distance between the inside of the two main beams, measured at a right angle to the center line of the skull. This is the one that scores — but it can't count for more than the length of his longer main beam.

Where to measure beams, tines and circumferences
Side view of a whitetail antler showing main beam length, tine lengths G1 to G6 and circumferences H1 to H4

G1–G4 are the normal points and H1–H4 are the circumferences. Step-by-step instructions are in each section below. Tap the chart to open it full size.

6Main beams

Start at the center of the lowest outside edge of the burr — where a line running down the middle of the outer side of the beam meets the burr. Follow the outer side of the beam along its curve to the most distant point of the beam tip.

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7Points

Normal points grow from the top or front of the main beam in the typical pattern. To find where a point starts, lay the tape along the outer curve of the beam so its top edge lines up with the top edge of the beam on both sides of the point. Measure from that line, over the outer curve of the point, to its tip. Leave a side blank if he doesn't carry that tine — an odd frame means one side has one more than the other.

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8Circumferences

Wrap the tape around the beam at its smallest place in each gap: H1 between the burr and G1, H2 between G1 and G2, H3 between G2 and G3, and H4 between G3 and G4. If the brow tine (G1) is missing, take both H1 and H2 at the smallest place between the burr and G2. If G4 is missing, take H4 halfway between G3 and the beam tip.

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9Abnormal points

Abnormal points are out of place or out of pattern: points growing off another point, off the bottom or side of the beam (kickers, stickers, drop tines), or extra points beyond the typical frame. Measure each one from where it leaves the beam or point it grows from, along its outer curve to the tip. It only counts as a point if it is at least 1" long and longer than it is wide at some spot 1" or more up — anything shorter is ignored. Add a row for each one. Abnormal points are added into the Gross Score, the same way Boone and Crockett scores a non-typical.

No abnormal points added.

Record Harvest

Score, age and save every deer to your registry.

Taking him to a taxidermist? Ask them to save the lower jaw for you. It's the easiest way to start aging your deer, and you can add his age to his record anytime from Your registry.

1Getting a look at the teeth

Either way works. You are reading the six cheek teeth along one side of the lower jaw, front to back. Tooth 3 tells you if he is a fawn or yearling. After that, age comes down to how much dark dentine shows against the white enamel on the molars (teeth 4, 5 and 6), starting with tooth 4. Always check both sides of the jaw.

In the mouth — quicker, no tools

Prop the mouth open, run a knife back along the cheek on one side to open it up, and put a light on the lower teeth. Wipe them clean. Look at the teeth from the side first, then straight down on the chewing surfaces. Good enough for most calls and it leaves the cape alone if he is going on the wall.

Jaw removed — clearer read

Cut the cheek back, work a jawbone extractor around the bone behind the last tooth, and pull toward the chin. Boil or scrub the jaw clean. You get a straight side-on view of every tooth, which makes the dentine-to-enamel call much easier on an older deer. Worth doing if you are keeping records year over year. Pulling jawbones is standard practice on many managed properties, including ranches enrolled in programs like the Oklahoma Department of Wildlife Conservation's Deer Management Assistance Program (DMAP).

2Photos of the teeth

Take both views — together they are what determine his age. The side view shows which teeth have been replaced and how tall they still stand. The top view shows how much dark dentine has worn through the white enamel on the chewing surfaces. They save with this buck, so you can check your call later or have someone else look.

Straight at the cheek side of the lower jaw, all six cheek teeth in frame, light coming across the teeth.

Looking straight down on the chewing surfaces, close enough to see where the white enamel stops and the darker dentine starts.

Registry

Every deer you've recorded, by season and hunt club.

Sit log

Every sit, every deer, every buck you saw. Zero-deer sits count too.

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Your plan, sign-in and account settings.

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How scores and ages work

Scores use Boone and Crockett whitetail measurements, totalled the way B&C scores a non-typical, and are calculated here as an original implementation — this is not an official Boone and Crockett or Pope and Young form, and it doesn't replace one. Age estimates from tooth wear are estimates; wear varies with soil, browse and region, and cementum annuli testing is more precise. Records are saved in this browser and, once you sign in, backed up to your WRX365 account. See the Terms of Use and Privacy Statement.